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Friday, March 22, 2013

GRETCHEN PRIMACK'S NEW BOOK OF POEMS

"I'm so pleased to tell you that my new book of poems, Kind, is out from lovely Post Traumatic Press. Kind looks at our relationship to (other) animals on the planet. It also explores what it's like to be the kind of person who cares about that sort of thing.

There's original art inside by Susan Siegel, a truly brilliant artist--take a gander at the cover (below), which is a detail from one of her paintings.

And happily, where there's a book, there are book parties! Refreshments, lovely people to chat with, reading, signing, a portion of proceeds to animal-advocacy organizations.... I so hope you can be a part of one (or both!) of them:New York City:April 28th, 6-8 pmJivamukti Center841 Broadway, 2nd Floorhttp://www.jivamuktiyoga.com/class/kind-poems-gretchen-primack

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IN THEIR WORDS

"Would you not like to try all sorts of lives--one is so very small--but that is the satisfaction of writing--one can impersonate so many people. " Katherine Mansfield

AMBIGUOUS CHEKHOV

"I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.''

"Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all."

"Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience."